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Viral Contradictions: Canadian Exceptionalism and COVID-19

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Title
Viral Contradictions: Canadian Exceptionalism and COVID-19
Abstract
Some shocking statistics underpin Adrian Murray's examination of COVID=19 in Canada: underfunded and poorly regulated for-profit care homes for the aged experienced a death rate four times that of public care homes. Murray details the uneven impacts of the pandemic in Canada, with the burden falling hardest on those in precarious work, women, black, Indigenous and other racalised groups - as shaped by Canada's colonial history of dispossession and racism, now exacerbated by neoliberal economic policies. Murray highlights the contradictions of Canadian exceptionalism, suggesting that the COVID-19 pandemic be read through the lens of a colonial present epitomised by internal inequalities and internationally by hoarding of vaccines. --From editor's introduction
Book Title
State–Society Relations around the World through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Rapid Test
Place
Abingdon
Publisher
Routledge
Date
2024
Language
English
ISBN
978-1-00-381770-3
Citation
Murray, A. (2024). Viral Contradictions: Canadian Exceptionalism and COVID-19. In F. Duca & S. Meny-Gibert (Eds.), State–Society Relations around the World through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Rapid Test. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003321545-7